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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by slrz on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:51PM (#14404057)
Right. Many programs react to an unset EDITOR variable by assuming vi though. This makes sense, of course, as virtually all systems are going to have some implementation of vi installed. Even the almighty ed tends to be missing from the default install of some recent Linux distributions.
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by JdeBP on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:12PM (#14425634)
Only if they have wrongly conflated EDITOR and VISUAL.
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by YeGoblynQueenne on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:24PM (#14404373)
That's probably out of mercy- saves people from getting stuck in ed.
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